Cost calculator

Budget for the library.
And the people watching it.

Estimate the SaaS platform fee, provider usage and service markup, or compare a deployment in your cloud. Adjust the workload and cost assumptions below.

Your starting workload

Deployment

Cloud rates

Recorded hours already stored

New recorded hours / month

Student playback hours / monthTotal viewing time across all viewers.

Additional full media backupsOne additional copy is budgeted by default.

Video quality and cloud assumptions

Stored video tracks

Average Mbps per stored track

Storage / rendition multiplier

Total Mbps per viewing session

Hosting allowance / month ($)VMs, disks, application backups and networking.

Object requests / month ($)An allowance for storage reads and writes. SaaS monitoring is covered by the platform fee.

Cloud processing / new hour ($)A compute allowance, not a CoreFeld recording-hour fee.

Storage / GiB-month ($)

Transfer / billed unit ($)Azure uses decimal GB; AWS/custom use GiB.

Unused free transfer units / monthDefault zero: an account-wide allowance cannot be promised independently to every SaaS tenant.

This is a planning estimate. Hosting and processing inputs are allowances, not measured capacity or a sized infrastructure quote. Human captions, migration, taxes and enhanced support are excluded.

Starting monthly estimate

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Platform + current library + monthly activity

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Shared SaaS application hosting is covered by the platform fee.

Platform + standard support: —
Media storage + backup copy: —
Playback transfer: —
New recording processing: —
Hosting allowance: —
Object requests: —
Provider usage subtotal: —
Usage service markup (25%): —

First-year budget including new media growth

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Includes $1,500 starting implementation. New recordings arrive evenly; no media is deleted during the first year.

Primary storage for 1,000 recorded hours

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Per month, excluding backup, transfer and other costs.

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How the estimate works

Recorded hours × tracks × average bitrate × rendition multiplier determine media size. Storage includes your additional backup copies. Playback hours × the total viewed bitrate determine transfer. For managed SaaS, the bill includes the platform fee and provider usage plus 25%. Shared hosting is covered by the platform fee. Customer-owned cloud adds its own hosting cost with no usage markup. The first-year estimate includes storage growth and the starting implementation fee.

Provider rate references

Rate examples checked 2026-10-02. Use your contract’s rates and discounts where available. Flat entry-tier rates are conservative for larger libraries; the estimate does not apply volume discounts.

Azure Hot LRS storage: $0.0208/GiB-month; North America transfer: $0.087/decimal GB after the available 100 GB monthly account allowance.
AWS S3 Standard, N. Virginia: $0.023/GiB-month; internet transfer: $0.09/GiB after the available 100 billed-GB monthly account allowance.
Custom rates use GiB for storage and transfer. Cloud requests, retrieval tiers, regional replication and support plans require a separate review.

Recording-hour inputs describe your workload. They do not impose or calculate a CoreFeld per-hour license charge.

Budget for the library.And the people watching it.

Your starting workload

How the estimate works

Provider rate references

Budget for the library.
And the people watching it.